College of Arts and Sciences Stories

Rebecca Snell NSF

OHIO professor Snell receives NSF grant to transform the model for examining climate change and forests

Dr. Rebecca Snell will construct a new way to predict how forests might respond to climate change thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant designed for potentially transformative research.

Ghirmai Negash

Ghirmai Negash talks about censorship and liberation, the life of an African writer

For many African writers, censorship can entail a lived experience as well as a current threat, even for those who emigrated to the United States.

Dr. Hee-Jong Seo

OHIO physicists are getting even closer to the Big Bang, thanks to a new way to examine light from the past

Ohio University physicists are using data from 20 years of ground-based observations of the night sky from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to tackle a fundamental physics question.

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99 inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 7 receive Wolfe Awards

Ninety-nine highly accomplished juniors and seniors were inducted into Ohio University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, and seven students shared the Thomas A. Wolfe Award.

Sabrina Curran and Claire Terhune work on a lab table covered with fossils

Curran searches for clues to human dispersal into Europe along the Danube River

Early human ancestors 2 million years ago would have found a hospitable environment to enter Europe through southern Romania along the Danube River and its tributaries, says an OHIO anthropologist.

Brian Schoen

Schoen will help elevate humanities in new Ping Institute professorship

Dr. Brian Schoen brings his expertise to his new role as the James Richard Hamilton/Baker and Hostetler Professor of the Charles J. Ping Institute for Teaching of the Humanities.

Emma Rice poses for a picture in the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), with the number 13 out of 30 total circuitries needed to build GRETA (Gamma Ray Energy Tracking Array)

OHIO Goldwater Scholar studies nuclear physics in national California lab

Ohio University student Emma Rice, an upcoming senior and physics major in the Honors Tutorial College, was recently named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar for her physics research. 

Fulbright 2021

Six Ohio University students, five alumni and professor selected as Fulbright Scholars

Six OHIO students, five alumni and a professor have been selected as recipients for the Fulbright Program.

Two pictures side by side, one of Dr. Nathaniel Szewczyk and the other of Dr. Sarah Wyatt in her lab.

Tiny seedlings and 3 million worms: Two OHIO experiments headed to International Space Station on June 3

When NASA's SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission-22 launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 3, it will carry two Ohio University experiments to the International Space Station.

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Faculty find home in Lindley Hall as Clippinger renovations begin

Faculty members whose offices are currently in Clippinger Hall will temporarily be relocated to Lindley Hall on College Green as part of the Clippinger Renovation Project.

Denis Flaschner sits behind a desk with a stack of books, Apple laptop, mug, with a window and wall of pictures and artwork behind him

'Hi. Remember me?' Student finishes honors thesis 15 years after leaving Athens

Denis Flaschner came to Ohio University as a first-year English major in 2000. He completed all his coursework with one exception: to graduate, he would need to complete a thesis project.

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Four faculty members chosen for MAC’s Academic Leadership Development Program

Four Ohio University faculty members have been chosen as the 2021-2022 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Academic Leadership Development Program (ADLP) Fellows.

Dr. Myra Waterbury leads a seminar in comparative politics

Waterbury awarded Fulbright to study Hungary and ethnic identity in the European neighborhood

Dr. Myra Waterbury was recently named a Fulbright Scholar and will be headed to Budapest in the spring of 2022 to conduct research on Hungary's disparate populations.

Helen Zia

Helen Zia talks to Athens community about contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders to American culture

More than 100 people attended "Real Talk About Big Questions," the April 23 virtual event led by Dr. Ji-Yeung Jang, interim executive director for Global Affairs.

Nicole Willson, Ohio University alumna

Nicole Willson Dubs Her Debut Novel ‘Historical Cosmic Horror’

Ohio University alumna Nicole Willson came to the plate six times — book in hand — before she finally hit a home run. She did it her way...

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